(Infographic) Bitcoin: Once A Diamond In The Rough, Now A Treasure
By mid-February 2021, Bitcoin hit an all-time high of over $53,000 — To understand where cryptoc...
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China's Mobile Payment Adoption Beats All Others
More than half a billion people in China will be paying with their phones at a point-of-sale this...
BNPL Player, Affirm Shares Soar Nearly 47% After Amazon Partnership
Affirm shares soar nearly 47% after Amazon partnership that lets consumers buy expensive things i...
(Video) Cashierless Checkout Company Zippin Raises $30M
The cashierless technology shift continues apace with today’s news that Zippin has raised $30 mi...
Search Engines and Digital Video Bolster Online Ad Spend
Spend on search engine ads as well as digital video ads is projected to grow by more than 50 perc...
Israeli Connected Vehicle Firm Upstream Security Raises Additional...
Israeli automotive cybersecurity startup Upstream Security has closed a $62 million investment le...
(PDF) BCG - Winning the Digital Banking Battle in Asia-Pacific
Digital banking in APAC is taking off, and the battle for digital consumers is joined. Of some 25...
Venture Capitalists Bet Big On Luxury
Even before COVID-19, VC funds were betting on the personal luxury goods market. But its resilien...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Automakers Can Succeed in a Post-Pandemic China
A new McKinsey survey shows that Chinese consumers have drastically changed their vehicle prefere...
Virtual Dressing Room Startup Revery.ai Applying Computer Vision to...
Figuring out size and cut of clothes through a website can suck the fun out of shopping online, b...
AI-Designed Chips will Generate 1,000X Performance in 10 Years
Automation has been part of chip design since the 1980s. But now AI-designed chips are producing...
(PDF) Mckinsey - How Live Commerce is Transforming The Shopping Exp...
Blending entertainment with instant purchasing, live commerce offers retailers, brands, and digit...
This Startup Produces EVs in a Different Way - Arrival
Instead of investing billions of dollars, these $50 million plants could save companies.Electric...
(Infographic) Lessons From The Most Valuable Luxury Brands In 2021
BrandZ/Kantar just published a list of this year’s most valuable luxury brands, and the leaders...
Gartner : 3 Themes Surface in the 2021 Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech...
Nonfungible tokens (NFTs), digital humans and physics-informed AI join the 25 technology profiles...
(PDF) Mckinsey - 5-Star Growth : Using Online Ratings to Design Bet...
New research shows that small changes in star ratings can drive explosive growth for products—on...
(M&A) Adobe Buying Frame.io in $1.28B Deal
Adobe announced today it is acquiring Frame.io, a video review and collaboration platform used by...
Food Conglomerate Starday Raises $4M
Starday, a healthy and sustainable food products company, raised $4 million in seed funding to ta...
(Video) Nvidia Opens Its ‘Metaverse’ by Adding Millions of Blende...
Nvidia’s Omniverse, billed as a “metaverse for engineers,” has grown to more than 50,000 users...
(PDF) BCG - Understanding The Global Price-Sensitive Consumer
One might assume that the world is awash in frugal buyers. Why wouldn’t it be? With most of the...
Automation-as-a-Service Startup Rapid Robotics Raises $36.7M
Rapid Robotics, a startup providing out-of-the-box automation solutions for manufacturers, today...
(PDF) Mckinsey - Shared Mobility : Where It Stands, Where It’s Headed
Having weathered a pandemic, regulatory whiplash, and a host of other hurdles, shared mobility en...
Crypto Fashion : Why People Pay Real Money for Virtual Clothes
People care what their avatars are wearing.When the virtual world Decentraland said in June users...
Bite Ninja Scoops Up Pre-Seed Funding to Reimagine Restaurant Worki...
Will Clem knows all too well about restaurant workers not showing up for a shift. At least one pe...
(PDF) BCG - B2B Distributors Can Survive the Age of Amazon
The threat may be virtual, but it’s starting to feel very real.On the one hand, companies around...
Xos, Inc. Unveils Xos Hub™, a Mobile Charging Station for Commerci...
Electric fleet mobility company Xos, Inc. has just introduced a mobile charging solution for elec...
(PDF) BCG - Will Car Subscriptions Revolutionize Auto Sales ?
For years, automakers have been looking for business models beyond car sales to diversify their p...
How Figma Became Design’s Hottest Startup, Valued At $10 Billion
As Google Docs did for word processing and GitHub for code, so Dylan Field’s Figma is doing for...
How Retailers Use Co-Branded Credit Cards to Drive Loyalty as Shopp...
Retail loyalty programs—the most prevalent type in consumers’ wallets—help brands develop last...
The Polestar 'Trambus' is a Road/Rail Hybrid Designed to Make publi...
Just like a train adds extra carriages when it’s running on high-capacity, the Polestar Trambus...
“No Credit Card” Is the New Credit Card
Younger consumers are opting out of credit cards and into digital payment alternatives.Could payi...
Upscribe, Raising $4M, Wants to Drive Subscription-First DTC Brand...
Upscribe founder and CEO Dileepan Siva watched the retail industry make a massive shift to subscr...
